A short recorded talk by Nick Stumbo arguing that churches often neglect discipleship in healthy sexuality compared with other discipleship areas such as finances and relationships. The speaker contends this neglect signals to people that their sexual concerns are abnormal or "special" rather than a normal area for discipleship and growth, and calls for sexuality to be incorporated into regular discipleship efforts.
As I mentioned earlier, I think sometimes churches unfortunately set this aside like a different thing and like, hey, you can do our men's ministry and women's ministry and we've got financial classes and relationship, but we never talk about healthy sexuality. That can leave people feeling like, well, if that's where I need help, there's something wrong with me that most people don't need. And I'm kind of leaving the discipleship path of my church to go get this quote, unquote, special help. When that's as we talked about, that's not the case. This is just one of the ways that we need to grow. So we disciple people in finances and relationships and all these other areas. And if we think of it as we need to disciple people in their sexuality, because in truth, most of us have had far less discipleship and teaching in our sexuality than most of those other areas. And we're in need.
